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placement of adjective
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Pamela Kingfisher Dec. 1, 2009.
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Frank Nov. 12, 2009.
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oops about ancien, thanks Neil, see, another cauchemar for your grammar page!
Pam
there are many adjectives when placed before the noun mean one thing, and when placed after the noun mean another. So, you have to memorize the differences.
Une grande femme. A great woman
Une femme grande. A large woman
mon ancienne maison. my form…
"de braves gens et de gens braves"
"brave" can be "good, kind", also "brave, courageous"
it matters where it's placed, before or after the noun, i know
help please
isabelle
Hi Isabelle,
"tenir de" and "tenir à" have different meanings.
tenir de (something) as in your sentence, means "to be made up of (something)".
the context is a description of a frenchman, a baron in 1940's france, who's providing shelter for a resistance chief:
"Un long nez, le teint brule par le soleil et le vent, des yeux petits et durs, il tient a la fois du loup et du renard."
When i…
the context is a conversation between two resistance chiefs brought to London during the war; the narrator is amazed at the other man, who he doesn't know, who has been describing his amazement and love for the people he's worked with back in France…
Hi,
I'm not sure you translated this correctly. Having the context, or at least the prior sentence, would really help.
"Mais je n'en avais pas eu la notion tant mon voisin avait su me conduire sur les pas de cette silhouette dessechee..."
I'm not sure this is a good translation, into modern american english:
But I had the idea that my neighbor had known how to get…
Hello,
"un peu" is the key here.
"Leurs histoires vives" would mean exciting stories, with a lot of action happening, or at least described because it wouldn't exclude stretching the truth a little bit.
But "un peu" before an adjective and while…
Tia, what an interesting phrase. So the Belgians are older than she, and are soldiers? I am thinking this is more like tall tales, soldiers are telling lies or fibs that have little life or little truth. So tall tales is my guess, they are telling h…
"Les Belges la faisaient rire par leur accent and leurs histoires un peu vives."
The "la" (she) here is a young french farm girl.
Isabelle
Tia,
Frank taught me that "livre osé" means risque book. Could you give more of the sentence? This might help give more of the context.
Pam
"...leurs histoires un peu vives";
does this translate as "their slightly risque stories"?
tia
isabelle
"paquets" is an informal way to say chunks (of anything) or groups (when talking about people).
So Pam's guess was right :)
Let's leave them in the wilds in small groups
this is my guess!! But Tia your guess is probably better than mine!
Pam
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